Fatih Ömer Ilday#
| Membership Number: | 5871 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://etit.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/en/faculty/professorships/prof-dr-oemer-ilday/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-9057-5371 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023/6 to present, Professor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering & Information Technology (ETIT) at Ruhr Universität Bochum (Germany)
- 2006/1 to 2023/8, Professor, Department of Physics (primary appointment), Department of Electrical Engineering (since 2014), UNAM (since 2015) at Bilkent University (Turkey)
- 2017/3 to 2017/6, Visiting Professor (sabbatical), Department of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)
- 2017/1 to 2017/3, Visiting Professor (sabbatical), Department of Physics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (Israel)
- 2005/1 to 2005/12, Research Scientist, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
- 2003/10 to 2004/12, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
- 1999/6 to 2003/10, Research Assistant, Department of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University
- 1998/8 to 1999/6, Teaching Assistant, Department of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University
Fields of Scholarship
- Laser physics
- Nonlinear optics
- Laser-material interactions
- Holography
- Self-organization
- Ultrafast optics
- Mode-locking of lasers
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Alexander von Humboldt Professorship by the Humboldt Foundation
- 2021 European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept Grant
- 2017 The Science Award, TÜBİTAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) (the youngest person to receive the highest award for science in Turkey, given to physics, on average, every three years)
- 2017 Senior Member, Optical Society of America (OSA)
- 2016 Full Member, Science Academy of Turkey
- 2014 European Research Council (ERC), Consolidator Grant
- 2012 Engin Arık Science Award, Turkish Physical Society (the youngest recipient of the top scientific prize of the society)
- 2011 Teşvik (Young Scientist) Award, TÜBİTAK
- 2006 Outstanding Young Scientist Award, Turkish Academy of Sciences
- 2006 Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant, European Commission
- 2003 William Nichols Findley Award, Cornell University
- 2003 Research Laboratory of Electronics Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 1998 Valedictorian, Department of Physics, Boğaziçi University
